Elderly, Frailty
Conditions
Keywords
hip surgery, frail older people
Brief summary
To find an objective, affordable and manageable way to measure frailty in elderly patients and to examine relationship between peri-operative metabolism of frail older people and outcome after hip surgery.
Interventions
OTHERObservational
Sponsors
Université Catholique de Louvain
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
45 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* hospitalized in St-Luc Hospital (Belgium) for hip surgery between 2013 and 2015
Exclusion criteria
* non-traumatic hip fracture * refusal
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Mortality | up to one year |
Outcome results
None listed